Agni Purana — Chapter 32
AgP 32.1
:ए इत्य् आदिमहापुराणे आग्नेये कुशापमार्जनं नाम एकत्रिंशो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {३२} :श् अथ द्वातिंशो ऽध्यायः संस्कारकथनं अग्निर् उवाच निर्वाणादिषु दीक्षासु चत्त्वारिंशत्तथाष्ट च संस्कारान् कारयेद्धीमान् शृणुतान्यैः सुरो भवेत्
:e ity ādimahāpurāṇe āgneye kuśāpamārjanaṃ nāma ekatriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {32} :ś atha dvātiṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ saṃskārakathanaṃ agnir uvāca nirvāṇādiṣu dīkṣāsu cattvāriṃśattathāṣṭa ca saṃskārān kārayeddhīmān śṛṇutānyaiḥ suro bhavet
[Thus the thirty-first chapter, called 'The Wiping-Away with Kuśa', in the primal great Purāṇa, the Āgneya. Chapter 32. Now the thirty-second chapter: the telling of the consecrations.] Agni said: In the initiations beginning with the nirvāṇa (initiation) the wise man should have forty-eight consecrations performed; hear them from others (?) — (thereby) he becomes a god.
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AgP 32.2
गर्भाधानन्तु योन्यां वै ततः पुंसवनञ्चरेत् सीमन्तोन्नयनञ्चैव जातकर्म च नाम च
garbhādhānantu yonyāṃ vai tataḥ puṃsavanañcaret sīmantonnayanañcaiva jātakarma ca nāma ca
The impregnation (garbhādhāna) is (performed) in the womb; then one should carry out the puṃsavana, and the parting of the hair (sīmantonnayana), the birth-rite, and the naming.
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AgP 32.3
अन्नाशनं ततश्चूडा ब्रह्मचर्यव्रतानि च चत्वारि वैष्णवी पार्थी भौतिकी श्रोत्रिकी तथा
annāśanaṃ tataścūḍā brahmacaryavratāni ca catvāri vaiṣṇavī pārthī bhautikī śrotrikī tathā
Then the first feeding of food, then the tonsure, and the vows of studentship — four (of them): the Vaiṣṇavī, the Pārthī, the Bhautikī, and the Śrotrikī.
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AgP 32.4
गोदानं सूतकत्वञ्च पाकयज्ञाश् च सप्त ते(१) अष्टका पार्वणश्राद्धं श्रावण्यग्रायणीति च
godānaṃ sūtakatvañca pākayajñāś ca sapta te(1) aṣṭakā pārvaṇaśrāddhaṃ śrāvaṇyagrāyaṇīti ca
The gift of a cow, and (release from) the state of impurity of birth; and those seven cooked-offering sacrifices (are): the aṣṭakā, the pārvaṇa-śrāddha, the śrāvaṇī and the āgrāyaṇī,
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AgP 32.5
चैत्री चाश्वयुजी सप्त हविर्यज्ञांश् च तान् शृणु आधानञ्चाग्निहोत्रञ्च दर्शो वै पौर्णमासकः
caitrī cāśvayujī sapta haviryajñāṃś ca tān śṛṇu ādhānañcāgnihotrañca darśo vai paurṇamāsakaḥ
the caitrī and the āśvayujī — (these are) the seven; and hear those (seven) oblation-sacrifices: the establishing (of the fires), the agnihotra, the new-moon and the full-moon rite,
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AgP 32.6
चातुर्मास्यं पशुबन्धः सौत्रामणिरथापरः सोमसंस्थाः सप्त शृणु अग्निष्टोमः क्रतूत्तमः
cāturmāsyaṃ paśubandhaḥ sautrāmaṇirathāparaḥ somasaṃsthāḥ sapta śṛṇu agniṣṭomaḥ kratūttamaḥ
the four-monthly rite, the animal-binding, and next the sautrāmaṇī. Hear the seven soma-forms: the agniṣṭoma, best of rites,
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AgP 32.7
अत्यग्निष्टोम उक्थश् च षोडशो वाजपेयकः अतिरात्राप्तोर्यामश् च सहस्रेशाः सवा इमे
atyagniṣṭoma ukthaś ca ṣoḍaśo vājapeyakaḥ atirātrāptoryāmaś ca sahasreśāḥ savā ime
the atyagniṣṭoma, the ukthya, the ṣoḍaśin, the vājapeya, the atirātra and the āptoryāma — these pressings are lords of a thousand.
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AgP 32.8
हिरण्याङ्घ्रिर्हिरण्याक्षो हिरण्यमित्र इत्य् अतः :न् १ सप्त च इति ग, ख, चिह्नितपुस्त्कद्वयपाठः :प् ९२ हिरण्यपाणिर्हेमाक्षो हेमाङ्गो हेमसूत्रकः
hiraṇyāṅghrirhiraṇyākṣo hiraṇyamitra ity ataḥ :n 1 sapta ca iti ga, kha, cihnitapustkadvayapāṭhaḥ :p 92 hiraṇyapāṇirhemākṣo hemāṅgo hemasūtrakaḥ
Golden-footed, golden-eyed, golden-friended, and so on — [Footnote 1: 'sapta ca' is the reading of the two manuscripts marked ga and kha. Page 92:] golden-handed, gold-eyed, gold-limbed, gold-threaded,
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AgP 32.9
हिरण्यास्यो हिरण्याङ्गो हेमजिह्वो हिरण्यवान् अश्वमेधो हि सर्वेशो गुणाश्चाष्टाथ तान् शृणु
hiraṇyāsyo hiraṇyāṅgo hemajihvo hiraṇyavān aśvamedho hi sarveśo guṇāścāṣṭātha tān śṛṇu
golden-mouthed, golden-bodied, gold-tongued, possessed of gold — and the horse-sacrifice, which is lord of all. Now hear the eight qualities:
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AgP 32.10
दया च सर्वभूतेषु क्षान्तिश् चैव तथार्जवम् शौचं चैवमनायासो मङ्गलं चापरो गुणः
dayā ca sarvabhūteṣu kṣāntiś caiva tathārjavam śaucaṃ caivamanāyāso maṅgalaṃ cāparo guṇaḥ
compassion toward all beings, and patience, and likewise uprightness, purity, and freedom from exertion, and auspiciousness as a further quality,
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AgP 32.11
अकार्पण्यञ्चास्पृहा च मूलेन जुहुयाच्छतम् सौरशाक्तेयविष्ण्वीशदीक्षास्त्वेते समाः स्मृताः
akārpaṇyañcāspṛhā ca mūlena juhuyācchatam sauraśākteyaviṣṇvīśadīkṣāstvete samāḥ smṛtāḥ
absence of meanness and absence of craving. One should offer a hundred oblations with the root-mantra. These initiations — of the Sun, of Śakti, of Viṣṇu, and of Īśa — are held to be equivalent.
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AgP 32.12
संस्कारैः संस्कृतश् चैतैर् भुक्तिमुक्तिमवाप्नुयात् सर्वरोगाद्विनिर्मुक्तो देववद्वर्तते नरः जप्याद्धोमात्पूजनाच्च ध्यानाद्देवस्य चेष्टभाक्
saṃskāraiḥ saṃskṛtaś caitair bhuktimuktimavāpnuyāt sarvarogādvinirmukto devavadvartate naraḥ japyāddhomātpūjanācca dhyānāddevasya ceṣṭabhāk
Consecrated by these consecrations, one would obtain both enjoyment and release; freed from every disease, the man lives like a god. By muttering, by oblation, by worship, and by meditation on the god, he gains what he wishes.
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